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Case in point: I know of a young lady who kept an online journal. Her parents found it and started reading it and were horrified to find out that she was suffering from -- brace yourself -- teen angst! Her parents don't understand her, not enough boys like her, she's not very popular, etc., etc. In reading through the journal, there are no references to doing drugs, sex, or anything else that one might expect a parent to worry about, but this young lady's parents hit the roof. They forbid her to keep an online journal and they grounded her (naturally, I'm sure this cured the angst problem).

Ah, stupid parents. If my choice is to laugh or scream, then I choose to laugh, despite the tragedy that stupid parents truly are.

Are they upset that she had thoughts of her own, or are they denial artists who want her to pretend to be happy all the time? Or is there some other psychosis going on?

They're upset because they are a couple of yuppies who can't understand why their daughter doesn't appreciate their world. They're comfortable with shorts and Polo shirts and she's wearing black clothes, black eyeliner, black hair dye, etc. In short, she's sort of a Goth and she has Ward and June for parents. Neither really understands the other.